Best places: Local history museums in New Lanark, United Kingdom

Museum tracing the design and history of money, with exhibits including Scotland's oldest banknote.

Reproductions of the city's social and industrial history in a cluster of fine historic buildings.

National Library digital & moving image archives, plus varied museum exhibits in a 1926 building.

The 16th-century Tolbooth houses a social history museum tracing city life since the late 1700s.

Puritan reformer's home dating from 1470 now hosting storytelling tours and historic exhibits.

👍👍 My favourite library. I have visited so many libraries in my lifetime and I cannot seem to find a better one than this. The staff are lovely, building is fantastic and there is a very wide range of books. I love that the childrens' section is in a separate area to the main library as it makes studyi...

Free museum open since 1893 displaying regional artefacts, archives & photography.

😐 The grounds are lovely great to sit in eating peace watching fountain. Inside is alot of steps so sadly I couldn't go up to see all there was a chair but it was to much for me to do a chair at 39 I'm still dealing with my mobility issues. The man working there .made me uncomfortable on arrival a h...

👍 Good little museum with good information about the towns past and connections to the Romans.

Restored Victorian building, community & events space with an on-site museum & cafe

👍 Architect unknown Category A listed This was the country seat of the medieval prebend (a sort of large parish) of Barlanark. The priest who lived here would spend six months each year preaching at Glasgow Cathedral and the other six here. Two buildings sit across a courtyard with whinstone walls co...

👍 Lovely countryside here with views across the sea to Isle of Arran and the Cumbraes. The original castle looks like a traditional square keep with other parts added on in later years. There's also a large mansion house nearby and a garden feature called a Ha-Ha wall. The area is popular with walkers...